My mother’s old stone doughnut jar memory
The speaker recalls a doughnut jar kept on a shelf beside the railroad track in boyhood. It sparked bittersweet memories of a time and place withheld by rules, yet the simple, beloved treat offered a fleeting joy that lingered as a moral connection to kin.
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Morales Wight
Dan Miters
Cane Hin
Ile
Cane Hill
Dan
Peter B. Bush
Peter B. Rush
Miters
Daugiters
Fanny
Dakota
Wyoming
Boise
Cross Roads House
Air Nighthawk
Nighthawk
Dan Miters and the Widow Barkley in Cane Hill Tale
A drunken Dan Miters dominates Cane Hill life challenging the widow Mary Barkley. In tense scenes he pleads for forgiveness while she refuses, a mad dog scare erupts fearing danger to the town, ending with her collapse as the crisis peaks.
Widow Faces Night Visit After Dark Discovery
A widow seeking shelter at a boarding house is found after dawn with a shocking scene: Dan and a mad dog dead on the path, the dog buried teeth in Dan’s throat as his stiffened fingers grip the animal. The incident prompts questions about courage and crime in a grim late night episode.
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Pen
BBC
George
Mary
Mia
Nigel
Barkley
Seregia
Dan
WN. Y. Journal
Ex-Minister tale of Windsor whisky bargains and bravado
ASUF Col Child recounts a Canadian visit in Windsor with Missourians. He boasts of paying five cents for Hennessy brandy punches and stages a jovial demonstration, saluting a palmed victory as nineteen men demand refills and shout a triumph across the Detroit River.
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Col. Child
Canada
Dominion
Windsor
Hennessy
Detroit
Sagaip
Kansas
Alabama Law Angers North Lawyer in Seemingly Mock Trial
The St Louis Globe Democrat reports William H. Palm, a northern attorney, returning from Alabama discouraged after a biased trial scene. He recounts defending a man accused of shooting at a Sunday race, failed alibi, and a judge’s verdict linking him to rebellion against local rules.
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Alabama
William H. Palm
Stone
Globe-Democrat
Bob
Ohio
Daniel Webster
North Carolina
Smugtown
Squire Sanders
Christendom
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Flossies Country Visit Brings Laughs and Local Nonsense
Flossie spends a month in the country and humor follows her as she meets a milk wagon, hens, and a busy turkey. She mistakes a watermelon for a bow that lays watermelons while her mother watches. The piece shifts to a joke about a suitor and a French public office scene with mass applicants.
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Flossie
France
Seine
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John Sorensen
Comstock
John Sorensen & CO
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Meridian Street
Main
J. Sorensen & CO
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U. S
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Detroit Free Press
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Man
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Jamey Sweeting
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Col Child
Tara
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Ealing
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